BakedCatboy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laptop is depolymerizing -- how can I remedy this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like those “soft touch” plastic surfaces. I’ve had a bunch of old plastic things turn sticky that way - it’s really hard to get it off but what I do is alternate between isopropyl, WD40 (brushed on with a cotton swab or cotton ball and let it sit for a while to let it break down the sticky before using Clorox or isopropyl to remove the WD40), and Clorox wipes. Eventually the matte finish comes off and you’re left with a shiny plastic surface. It just takes a lot of elbow grease, I often give myself finger blisters from scrubbing but it’s a relief to get it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is apparently partially about exclusive deals that bar app developers from putting their apps on additional third party app stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clogged nozzle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that petg? For some reason I usually have problems with petg and infill patterns that cross over itself so I usually switch to gyroid. I think it has something to do with the speed and flow and the properties of the filament that make it especially bad when the infill lines cross over itself. You can probably tune temps, speeds, and feeds to get it to work but I find it easier to just not use that infill pattern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to read it 3 times to make sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They seem to just keep getting better and better. When I scratched the lens on my index due to my own carelessness they replaced the headset for free. It’s been 5 years since I bought it and the controller strap broke last week and they sent me a free replacement. Any other company and I would have expected my only option to be buying a new controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just accept the terms and disable wifi, or if you don’t want to double nat just use a switch and accept the terms / login on every device connected to the switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because he already did an nft collection apparently, according to the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to clear it up! It’s a super powerful tool, and I still occasionally skip the automation and just use it for manual searches since it reduces that process to a single click to search all configured torrent sites and a single click to download and have the rest automatically handled.

  I used to need remote access to my torrent client and separate access to my NAS filesystem to move/rename files when downloads finish which was a really manual process. Now all I need is the reverse-proxied sonarr/radarr UI since it handles moving/copying/renaming on download completion - and while the UI isn’t mobile-first, it’s very usable and feels less error-prone than moving/renaming files remotely using a file explorer app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, but it also depends on what you want. You don’t have to use the full automation. I started just by using it as a read-only way to see what movies I had and in what qualities and keep things organized. You can use it as a manual interface to do one-off downloads - basically just as an interface to search 5 torrent sites in 1 place. You can use it only to rename files to a consistent format. So there are a lot of ways to use the various features of sonarr/radarr besides automatic downloads. You’re not forced to go all-in and out of the box it doesn’t start automatically downloading until you enable that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that sucks. I must have gotten lucky or something with my setup. I also have trackers go unavailable all the time but I enabled 8 different ones and usually multiple will have the same torrent so it usually has no problem finding something even if 1 or 2 are down. I also don’t VPN tracker searches, just my BitTorrent client so flaresolverr seems to work fine for me (I only have it enabled for 2 of my trackers since most of the ones I use don’t seem to require it).

  If you end up trying it out again I would look into the quality settings and make sure you’re not using the remux quality profile. By default most of the quality profiles seem to limit at 100MB/min, so a 2 hr movie shouldn’t allow anything over like 12GB. Whenever I tweak quality or custom formats I refer to trash guides which has a lot of battle-tested rules you can copy. I have my main profile set to only download qualities between hdtv720 and br1080 with custom formats set to prefer hevc with surround sound since I have 5.1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao that greentext was literally me before I finally set up arrstack. One of the best investments of my time, it has definitely paid off over many years of just having things automatically download.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the sudden urge to pirate D+ shows even harder now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like your public transit agency has to be ripping people off for it to be more expensive than driving. Renting a parking spot cost us almost half of the unlimited transit pass, and repairing my car’s AC could have paid for close to a year of passes. Not to mention gas and other routine maintenance (I would change my own oil but it’s inaccessible without getting underneath, and my apartment complex has a rule against “repairs” in the parking lot which I’m sure lifting my car would count as).

  Being slower is just par for the course in the US though so that doesn’t surprise me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DAS filepath autoincrements up each time I reboot [HELP]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be safe, using fstab is how I do a network mount to a specific folder also so it doesn’t change or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll make it a lot more likely that YouTube ads will get through because MV3 limits the block list size to a fraction of the size normally used by uBO and also disallows external/live updates to the block list, instead forcing the rules to be baked into the extension. Meaning an update to the blocking rules could take a week of extension review time to go through. I heard that the YouTube ad blocking rules can update multiple times a day so this would easily allow Google to update their ad code before approving updates to ad blockers, allowing them to always stay ahead.

  So it might not outright break it, but some rules will have to be left off so it seems like it’ll be a dice roll if you get an ad where the blocking rule had to be left off to fit Google’s block list limit or the rule you have is stale because it took a couple weeks for the extension update to be approved on the extension store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like using bitwarden, the vaultwarden server stores it with passwords and makes codes available in the app / browser extension. I also keep them backed up on a nas and synced off-site just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought tepid was like neither warm or cool, so more of a lukemedium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s better because PPA isn’t about targeting ads at all. It doesn’t share any browsing history, topics, or any information for ad targeting to advertisers at all. What it does do is provide a way for a website to tell your browser which ads are relevant to an action you take - for example on a checkout confirmation screen the site may tell your browser “here’s a list of ad IDs for the shop you just bought from”. Your browser then checks if it’s seen any of those ads, checking completely using local data that doesn’t leave the browser, then to an aggregator it reports which ads possibly led to your purchase. The aggregator increments a counter for each ad in its database and relays the totals to the advertiser. There are no unique identifiers or any information about your habits or interests involved.

  When I initially heard about PPA I also thought it was related to FLoC / topics, but it has nothing to do with ad targeting or sharing information about habits / interests, it’s just a way to tell advertisers “Ad XYZ was effective and led to a sign up/purchase” without revealing who saw the ad or any personal information about them, just the total number of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep on both my laptops. But I run Ubuntu on my selfhosting nuc and the vps I use as a wireguard reverse proxy - it’s a lot easier to update those every 6 months that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really just Plex, in addition to powering 6 spinning drives (~50TB total), I also run Nextcloud, immich, Ollama (CPU inference, no GPU), home assistant, grocy, vaultwarden, jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, prowlarr, flaresolverr, and overseerr. I run Plex on a separate Intel nuc10 (also included in that $10 of electricity) which has Intel QuickSync which allows me to transcode ~8 simultaneous 1080 streams to friends while leaving most of the rest of the CPU to everything else like running LLMs on the CPU (it’s cheaper to run larger models on a slower CPU with lots of RAM compared to buying a GPU with a matching amount of vram).

  So yeah if you don’t care about n+2 double redundant disks or sharing with more than like 5 people or hosting other apps or running AI while people are streaming then yeah you should totally get something less power hungry. Just the Intel nuc10 I use for Plex (but not media storage) has a TDP of 25W so just that would lower the electricity cost to like $2.50/mo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when Netflix first introduced the ad supported plan and a lot of people were like this is how they make you pay extra to not see ads, and a lot of other people called that fud because it’s an additional tier and the normal tier isn’t impacted.

  At the time I was yelling that it was just the first step - create an ad free plan, wait for people to calm down, then raise the prices until the ad supported plan costs as much as the ad free one used to. And there you have it, they charged extra to not see ads, just with extra steps.

  I quit Netflix back then and I’m so glad I did. $10/mo in electricity gets me every streaming service on my Plex, that’s like a $100/mo value and I get to share it with all my friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you build complex shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My approach in fusion is to start with the most complex profile shape and create a sketch on that dimension and then just keep removing or adding features using sketches on the other axes.

  For example for your radio holder I would do a top down sketch with 2 circles connected with 2 lines, times 2 inset from that, then add a couple cuts to get the C shape. Extrude that and then do a separate extrude of the entire outline (without cuts) and set the extrude offset to the height of the model so that the new body ends up at the bottom of the previous extrusion - and more set to join if they’re touching so it automatically merges them.

  I hope that gives some idea on how to build up shapes - I haven’t really used any tutorials but just kind of wing it by trying to make my first sketch of a part from an angle where that sketch can take care of as much complexity as possible so the finishing touches can be simpler. (Ie, if you made that orange part from the side, the initial sketch would be a square and you would have to do a lot more operations to cut off material)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My bioluminescent petunia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! I got mine recently too but haven’t checked it for luminescence since I’ve been busy - I still need to repot it and hang it in a better spot that gets better sunlight so I’m not expecting it to be bright just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those were the days⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have some 3gp/3gpp videos recorded on my old slide. What a pain. And I think depending on whether your phone was gsm/CDMA would affect whether it recorded to .3gp or .3g2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix: Profits soar after password sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My storage capacity soared to 50TB after the password sharing crackdown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it’s not very hard to negate the system prompt…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the reasons I never want a car with it’s own internet connection. I’ll stick to plugging in my phone, where I’m very stingy with which apps even get location data, much less the “physical activity history” permission which allows this kind of continuous tracking (and which is usually needed because it uses Google’s algorithms / possibly neural nets to guess whether you’re driving or walking based on accelerometer / gyro / gps / magnetometer sensor fusion).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me (android, US) I had to change the search a couple times for it to start giving AI answers. I assume that’s to save queries by only using AI when someone isn’t happy with the search results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me (in the app) it only starts generating AI answers if I change the question a couple times. Presumably that’s to save costs on the AI by just trying a dumb search first and resorting to AI if the user keeps searching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only do web development, but my networking knowledge mostly comes from being the designated person to call the ISP for tech support and being in charge of setting up the WiFi in every place that I’ve lived, in addition to participating and running community scale mesh wifi tech meetups for many years (think NYCMesh except just 4 guys who never accomplished much aside from buying and flashing lots of routers with openwrt lmao)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your ISP knows the Mac address of your router since it requests a public IP from them using DHCP. That’s why if you contact support they usually can confirm the brand of your router by doing an oui lookup.